Jenna has decided that she is going to have her baby sleep in a bassinet in her bedroom. This may reduce the chances of SIDS for Jenna's baby because
a. mothers and infants who sleep in the same room tend to synchronize patterns of sleep, breathing, and states of arousal, possibly reducing the occurrence of apnea.
b. mothers and infants who sleep in the same room do not spend very much time sleeping, reducing the opportunity for infants to die in their sleep.
c. mothers are more likely to wake up if their infants stop breathing while they are in the same room.
d. baby monitors do not do a very good job of differentiating between quiet sleep and the cessation of respiration.
A
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